Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has blasted the UN Security Council resolution on Libya as well as US policies of interfering in local conflicts.

­Speaking to the workers of Russia’s Votkino plant, the prime minister called the no-fly zone resolution on Libya imposed by the UN Security Council "obviously incomplete and defective". He added that the resolution allowed any kind of measures to be taken against a sovereign state and said the sanctions remind him about the medieval call for crusades.

Putin stressed that is his personal position, as the government he heads does not involve itself in foreign politics. He said Libya was a complex problem which needs specific regulation, and that does not mean direct intervention in its internal affairs.

Putin also added that the US policy of interfering in the conflicts of other states is now becoming a stable tendency that lacks both conscience and logic. He added that though the Libyan regime does not match Western democracy standards, no one has been given the right to interfere with internal political conflicts.    

“I am worried not by the fact of military interference as it is, there are a lot of armed conflicts, they have happened before and regrettably they will happen again in the future. But I am perplexed by the ease with which the decisions on use of force are nowadays made in international affairs,” Putin said.

“In Bill Clinton’s times they bombed Yugoslavia and Belgrade, Bush sent troops to Afghanistan and then, under a made-up and absolutely false excuse they sent troops to Iraq, liquidated all Iraqi authorities, even children from Saddam Hussein’s family were killed,” Putin said. “Now its Libya’s turn. They use protection of civilians as an excuse. But it is the civilian population who perish in air raids. So where is the logic and conscience? There is none of both,” the prime minister added.

Putin believes Russia was right when it made a decision to strengthen its defenses some time ago.

Russia has abstained in the UN Security Council vote on the resolution authorizing the use of force in Libya, but President Dmitry Medvedev amended the Russian legislation in accordance with the resolution, banning the sales of arms to Libya and also refusing Gaddafi and his close circle the right to enter the Russian Federation.  At the same time, Russian officials have repeatedly criticized the resolution and warned that it could lead to a lengthy war with numerous casualties.